ANTH 212 Lecture Notes - Resource Depletion, Joual, United Nations Development Fund For Women
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Ndikumana and boyce- book on the debt issue in africa. They reveal that contrary to popular perception of. Africa being a drain on the financial resource of the west, the continent is a net creditor the rest of the world. billion in the past decades in money flowing out of the african countries. For africa states, it is more important to freeze the assets and try to find a way to finance development (ex. The debt payments are draining resources from africa, making less money available for public health and education. That money is normal considered as an odious debt and should not be reimbursed as it has impeded development. Aid is a trojan horse- an instrument of control (as described by weissman) According to ferguson, development can be understood as anthropology"s evil twin, because development is concerned with the same geographical areas and communities but threatens and challenges the assumptions that anthropologists hold dear.